Eddie Murphy Says His Dream Project Is a Fake R&B Documentary
Eddie Murphy has been awarded the famous prize Lifetime Achievement Award by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2022, but it’s clear that the 63-year-old actor—or as he likes to be described, a “super sensitive artist”—still has plenty of milestones ahead of him. want to achieve. In a new interview, the star of the upcoming film Netflix movies Beverly Hills Police: Axel F says he always wanted to make a very specific “fake documentary,” so much so that he even made a trailer for the film that has yet to be produced.
Revelation comes in one The interview was published on Saturday inside New York Times MagazineA conversation that seems to favor the release of the fourth film on July 3 in the 40-year-old film Beverly Hills Police franchising. “We have tried to develop a Beverly Hills Police since 1996,” Eddie Murphy said, after John Landis-Command Beverly Hills Police III failed to live up to the star’s expectations. “It didn’t have the emotional appeal of the other movies,” Murphy said. “I don’t think it was a success.”
“There were ten different scripts and a lot of different producers,” the fourth Police movie, Murphy said. “We tried for years but things just couldn’t work out until We have Jerry [Bruckheimer] return to join, the original producer. Jerry, he knows best because it’s his movie, and everything comes together.”
Murphy has long expressed dissatisfaction with the film industry, speak Vanity Fair in 2020 that he was “so exhausted by the filmmaking process that if I were a kid, I would start crying.”
The problem, he said at the time, was “the process of being on set, at a level where I’ve been making films since I was very young, and having to do it constantly. Just sitting in the trailer and waiting.”
It seems not much has changed for the star in the past four years, as he told the interviewer. David Marchese, “I never had fun” during the filmmaking process.
“Actually being in a scene, that’s just a small part of the day. I love that — when we’re on set and you feel it flickering. But ‘hurry up and wait’: That’s the movie business, and it’s not fun.”
Even though he is the recipient of many awardsMurphy also scoffed at those ceremonies, telling Marchese, “The most terrible energy in the world is a room full of celebrities going through their whole fame thing: who’s the most famous, who’s cool, and who’s not. I hate that feeling.”
Murphy, who said his work in Professor Nutty is one of his best (“I can’t think of anyone else who could do that Professor Nutty,” he said), seemed most interested in talking about a movie he hadn’t yet made. “There’s something I’ve been threatening to do for years called Soul, soul, soul,” he said. “It’s like my favorite fake documentary.”
“It is a Zelig kind of thing, where this guy was a part of rock ‘n’ roll, R&B in the ’60s and working with people; all these great moments, and he’s attached to all this stuff,” Murphy said. He went so far as to create a trailer for the film, even showing it to writer, actor and musician Donald Glover. “He said, ‘Yo, you gotta make this movie. How do we make this movie?’” Murphy said.
Murphy, however, has yet to decide to produce, although “I got to the point where I was going to do it and then said, ‘No, not now.'” Murphy said the problem was that he felt “it was too pretentious and only a handful of people would go see it—but they would laugh out loud.”
And there’s also Murphy’s aforementioned frustration with the filmmaking process. Even for a dream project like Soul, Soul, Soul“There’s a lot of work to be done,” Murphy said. “It’s a stopgap measure. But I tell you, one day, I’ll get there.”
